In late 1998, the band regrouped and began work on a fourth Stone Temple Pilots album.
In 1998, Matchbox 20 recorded a live version of their single, “3 A.M.” for release on the charity album Live in the X Lounge , benefiting United Cerebral Palsy research.
Lee and Moody recorded two EPs as Evanescence: Evanescence (1998), of which 100 copies were made and sold at their early live performances; and Sound Asleep (1999), also known as the Whisper EP. Their demos got them airplay on the local modern rock station in Little Rock, which helped them…
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The band’s hit song “My Own Prison” was featured as a live performance on the charity album Live in the X Lounge in 1998.
Afterglow provided the band their only Grammy Award nomination to date, a Best Rock Instrumental nod in 1998 for “El Distorto de Melodica”. Later that year, the band won Billboard’s Modern Rock Band of the Year Award . Though Afterglow never charted higher than No. 33 on the Billboard album…
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1998 marked the year where the public became actively aware of Idlewild, who kicked off the year with their first UK tour, supporting the band Midget . The release of Captain , on 18 January, received positive reviews in the NME , Melody Maker and Kerrang! . In February the…
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VH1 revived the band’s fortunes in the US in 1998 by featuring them on one of the first episodes of Behind the Music . Re-runs of the episode yielded some of the series’ highest ratings and brought the band’s music back into the public consciousness (following years of burial by…
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In early 1998 Feeder toured the United States as a support act for Everclear . During their tour, the band released a re-worked version of ” Suffocate ” for UK release, which charted at No. 37. After their return to the UK, they played their own headline tour with Everclear…
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Benjamin Burnley was originally in a band named Breaking Benjamin in 1998, that played “softer music”, such as Weezer and the Beatles covers, and was “nothing like” subsequent lineups. The name originates from an incident in which Burnley broke a borrowed microphone, prompting its owner to retort, “Thanks to Benjamin…
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Griffin, Drummond and McNabb spent 18 months working on Closer , their follow-up album to 1998’s How Does Your Garden Grow? and their first new material since being dropped by Elektra Records. The album was recorded in New Orleans in the band’s own studio, which allowed the members to focus…
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